Refrigerated & Frozen Foods Every day, we come closer and closer to the Food and Drug Administration's implementation and enforcement of new and complex federal rules, requirements, procedures and powers under the Food Safety Modernization Act. FSMA will transform the nation's food safety system into one that is based on the prevention of foodborne illnesses.

Editor's note:AFFI Senior Vice President of Regulatory and Technical Affairs Dr. Donna Garren authored this column on how food makers can prepare facilities for inspection under the Food Safety Modernization Act.
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Food Business News The Dean Foods Co. has acquired the manufacturing, retail ice cream business and trademark of Friendly's Ice Cream LLC for $155 million from an affiliate of the private equity firm Sun Capital Partners. The Friendly's restaurant business is not a part of the transaction.READ MORE

USAgNetPersistence Market Research delivers key insights on the global frozen fruits market in its latest report titled "Global Market Study on Frozen Fruits: Upsurge in Demand from Industrial Customers to Drive Market Growth Over the Forecast Period 2016-2022." The global frozen fruits market is anticipated to witness robust growth during the forecast period 2016-2022.READ MORE

PoliticoFor a presumptive nominee who's well behind Hillary Clinton in most polls, Donald Trump doesn't seem terribly worried about unifying the Republican Party behind him in the general election. Perhaps that's because Trump has another strategy in mind: stitching together a bipartisan coalition by winning over the nearly 10 million supporters of his comrade in populist anger, Bernie Sanders.
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Blueberries are a boon for kid-friendly, mom-approved beverages. Beverage formulators put blueberries on the label and benefit from the image as a healthy, delicious fruit full of natural goodness and the associations of comfort food. Blueberries impart lush flavor in juices, beverages and teas as is or combined with other fruits. Blueberry juice, puree and other liquid blueberry products are available year round.

The Hill Democrats are openly hoping that Hillary Clinton will pick Elizabeth Warren as her running mate.
Amid concerns that supporters of Bernie Sanders will choose to stay home on Election Day, a number of Democrats see a Clinton-Warren alliance as an all-woman dream team that could ignite deep enthusiasm in the progressive base and make the 2016 Democratic presidential ticket truly historic. READ MORE

The Washington Post At a campaign rally in of the most liberal towns in America, Donald Trump offered praise for an ­unusual party: avowed democratic socialist Bernie Sanders.
"Now, I'm no fan of Bernie Sanders, but he is 100 percent right," Trump told a crowd in Eugene, Oregon. "He is 100 percent right: Hillary Clinton is totally controlled by the people that put up her money. She's totally controlled by Wall Street."
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The Associated Press The Food and Drug Administration will re-evaluate its definition of "healthy," which could eventually change how a range of foods are marketed.
In light of evolving research, the FDA said it believes "now is an opportune time to re-evaluate the regulations concerning nutrition content claims, generally, including the term 'healthy'."

PoliticoAny proposal from Sen. Debbie Stabenow on how best to preempt Vermont's genetically modified organism labeling law needs to get sign-off from agriculture and food groups in order to be successful, Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts told reporters recently. Roberts said he is still unclear what Stabenow is willing to agree to in order to set a national standard on genetically modified organisms.READ MORE

The Baltimore Sun Amid growing questions about the alleged mislabeling of olive oil, a congressional committee is asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to test imports to look for unpure or misbranded products. But members of the industry in Baltimore and elsewhere disagree about how to best weed out fraud and reassure consumers.
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Food Safety News The senior Democrat on the U.S. House committee that oversees funding for the Food and Drug Administration wants the agency to shut down the Dole salad facility that is under investigation for a deadly listeria monocytogenes outbreak. The outbreak spans the U.S. and Canada, was ongoing from May 2015 through spring this year and sickened at least 33 people.
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Food ProcessingJust as machine-based processing lacks the flexibility of manual production but makes up for it in throughput, manual processes provide infinite flexibility but come with a loss in volume. Finding the sweet spot between the extremes is the world most food manufacturers live in.READ MORE

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Food Navigator-USA Marketers of meat alternatives like to talk a lot about sustainable protein and how we're going to feed the world in 2050. But are these things really primary purchase drivers today?READ MORE

Food Dive Accelerators in food and beverage are able to identify the technologies that can impact the way manufacturers operate and develop products. From DNA analysis to gene-editing technology, startups are at the head of these technological innovations and can pass their discoveries onto major manufacturers.READ MORE